Earthquakes within plates: we don't know when, and we may not know where
Category: geohazards
For intracontinental earthquakes, the seismic past and present may not help when predicting future hazards
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:11 AM • 4 Comments •
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Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, and South Africa in his first post-doc, he now works at the University of Edinburgh.
Anne Jefferson has a love of all things water-related and blends hydrology, geomorphology, geology, and climate change in her work. She has a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Category: geohazards
For intracontinental earthquakes, the seismic past and present may not help when predicting future hazards
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:11 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: geohazards
Capital city in danger of being flattened by earthquakes? Move the capital city
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:30 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: by Anne
One last push for geoblog readers to fund earth science projects that rattle the classroom windows.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 6:14 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: geohazards
A quick look at the causes of this weeks' big earthquakes in Samoa and Indonesia
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:38 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: geohazards
Monday's earthquake did not occur in isolation - what do the smaller earthquakes tell us?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:30 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: geohazards
Any geologist would be celebrating a genuine, proven, method of earthquake prediction: but we're clearly not there yet.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 4:44 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: geology
Some geological background on the 6.3 near L'Aquila, Italy.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:43 PM • 15 Comments •
Category: bloggery
Volcanoes and dinosaurs and 50's sci-fi, oh my!
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:52 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: geology
Do you get more volcanic eruptions in the aftermath of large earthquakes? Sometimes.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:38 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: geohazards
Was the mud volcano drilling or earthquake-triggered? The AAPG decides...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:42 AM • 8 Comments •